Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him during 2016 campaign

Posted: 8:12 am Saturday, March 4th, 2017

By Jamie Dupree

After several days of intense questions that zeroed in on his campaign’s contacts with Russia, President Trump on Saturday morning leveled a staggering accusation at President Obama, accusing him of “wire tapping” Mr. Trump during the 2016 race.

“Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election?” Trump said in a series of early morning tweets from Mar-a-Lago, his Florida retreat.

“This is Nixon/Watergate,” Mr. Trump added, without providing any evidence of why he believes there was eavesdropping directed at him in 2016.

Here were some of the tweets that the President sent out this morning:

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!